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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portable C vs Efficient C and macro processors
Message-ID: <858@argus.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-May-87 04:03:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  4 04:03:18 1987
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In article <685@edge.UUCP>, doug@edge.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>  The best assembler translator
> program that I've ever used was (cover your ears, kiddies, I'm gonna say a
> naughty word) the IBM 360/370 OS assembler.  Just about everything you'd
> ever want was in that assembler.  Not always in the nicest syntax, but at
> least it was there.  But that assembler is 25 years old now!

I concurr, the place I work at has a scaled down version of the 360
macro processor.  We use it to partly emulate various redundent operations
that just can't be done with the C pre-processor without a great deal
of gyrating.

> 
> -- Doug Pardee -- Edge Computer Corp. -- Scottsdale, Arizona

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